I love public speaking, and would be glad to join you at your event.

I believe that our personal values should be reflected in our work, so I don’t participate in events where I am the only woman, events with one or fewer people of color on the speaking schedule, or events organized by groups that don’t explicitly support equal opportunity and require respectful conduct from attendees.

There is an abundance of extremely talented women, people of color, and LGBT+ people in the data science industry, and if you are struggling to find them for your event or job opening, please let me know and I may be able to help connect you.

That said, if you’re looking for a speaker, contact me at or visit my SpeakerHub profile.

I’m available to speak on the following topics:

Or other topics - please contact me if something adjacent would fit your audience!



Upcoming Appearances


Up next:

Event: ODSC Europe Virtual Conference 2020

Topic: Making Happy Modelers: Build and Maintain Your Data Warehouse with AWS Redshift and Airflow
Location: Virtual
Date: September 17-19, 2020
Links: https://odsc.com/speakers/making-happy-modelers-build-and-maintain-your-data-warehouse-with-aws-redshift-and-airflow/



Past Appearances

If you have any questions about any of the talks below, contact me on twitter!


Event: RE*WORK’s Virtual Applied AI Summit - Spring 2020

Topic: Moderator, Panel: Strategies for Effectively Building, Deploying, and Monitoring AI
Location: Virtual/London, UK
Date: May 21, 2020
Links: https://www.re-work.co/events/applied-ai-virtual-summit


Event: Women in Data Science Chicago 2020

Topic: Better Data Science Team Collaboration with R
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: March 6, 2020
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab https://widschicago.org/


Event: DC R Conference

Topic: Animation for Effective Data Visualization with R
Location: Washington, DC
Date: November 8, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/animating_dataviz
https://dc.rstats.ai/2019/dcr/


Event: ODSC West

Topic: Elasticsearch End User Workflows in R and Python - Interactive Workshop
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: November 1, 2019
Video: Coming Soon
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/elastic_analytics


Event: R-Ladies Chicago and Chicago Data Visualization Community Joint Meetup

Topic: Animation for Effective Data Visualization with R
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: July 24, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/animating_dataviz


Event: REV 2

Topic: Elasticsearch End User Workflows in R and Python
Location: New York, NY
Date: May 23, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/elastic_analytics
Listen to my conversation with Eric Kavanagh on Inside Analytics podcast


Event: satRday Chicago

Topic: Keynote: What Data Science Can Learn From Sociology
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: April 27, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/satRdays_chicago_2019


Event: R Package Building Workshop

Topic: 1 day seminar for women and nonbinary folks
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: February 23, 2019
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/r_packages


Event: EARL Roadshow Seattle 2018

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: November 7, 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Event: ODSC East 2018

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Boston, MA
Date: May 3, 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Event: Metis Speaker Series

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: April 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Partially Derivative Podcast

May 9, 2017
http://partiallyderivative.com/podcast/2017/05/09/data-science-near-you



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